I have a governement id and a google logon. I worry a lot more about google than the gov.
There are legally enforced limits to what can be done with my gov id. Regulations say who can see it, what it can be used for, and a court for when things go wrong. If thing go too bad, a public backlash will occur, and politicians are very sensutive to it. Not perfect, but it works.
Google/Microsoft/Facebook, otoh, have no obligations to you. They use your id as they see fit. They revoke your id as they see fit. They prove to be bad stewards, have invisible everchanging rules, and only 1 punishment for violating it. Meanwhile you have to have an id with all if them, or network effects eill give you trouble when others use a service to contact you.
You're idea will not put people in control of their id, it would put the bigcorps in control of it. When big enough, a corporation is like governement's evil twin.
Well, we're the opposite then: If I want to be over and done with google, it's super easy. And if I don't think they delivered value for what I pay, I can have the payment reverted by my CC. And try as they might, google will have trouble putting me in jail or killing me :)
So yes, I really love that they have no obligation for me.
And if Google/Microsoft/Facebook can do ID, there will certainly also be a Linux solution, and I'll use it :)
The US government has no trouble killing or jailing people, even with only a half functioning id system. In fact I have no idea how it's acceptable to give everybody a social security number and then claim it is but a secret and a public identifier. It's the worst of both worlds.
Now without google account, you're locked out of a big chunk of the android world. I recently joined a group using hangouts, google account required. School and docter and a few others started to use ms teams since corona, requiring a microsoft account. I don't have facebook yet, but it costs me a lot of mini second hand sales in the neighbourhood. There are other such cases.
I could try to re-educate every one of these groups, but after a full time job and a family, that's not how I want to spend my time. There's a short amount of time to spend in life, and a worthy cause on every street corner. Feel free to mock me for not choosing these particular hills to die on.
I'd rather have consumer protection and/or anticompetitive action. The governement can spend some of my tax money on it, as it's their job. Meanwhile I'll use my id to log in at my healthcare provider, knowing that if they are stupid enough to sell that data, they get a backlash from the public opinion and some very unwanted attention of the courts.
There are legally enforced limits to what can be done with my gov id. Regulations say who can see it, what it can be used for, and a court for when things go wrong. If thing go too bad, a public backlash will occur, and politicians are very sensutive to it. Not perfect, but it works.
Google/Microsoft/Facebook, otoh, have no obligations to you. They use your id as they see fit. They revoke your id as they see fit. They prove to be bad stewards, have invisible everchanging rules, and only 1 punishment for violating it. Meanwhile you have to have an id with all if them, or network effects eill give you trouble when others use a service to contact you.
You're idea will not put people in control of their id, it would put the bigcorps in control of it. When big enough, a corporation is like governement's evil twin.